This cookbook is so user-friendly and lovely. I don't even want to give you a publisher's blurb--I want to tell you about it myself. On the title page is a poem written by Carla's eight year-old daughter. First up: a bake sale guideline, then history and cooking equipment, conversion chart, ingredients, photos, troubleshooting, a guide to how to bake for newer cooks, adapting/resizing recipes, substitutions, presentation, storage, and a guide to baking throughout the year. Comprehensive. And that is just the first 50 pages! From page 50 to 252 are more than 150 delicious recipes. Lists for avoiding specific sensitivities/allergens (soy, nut, wheat) and child-friendly recipes are noted.

Carla has generously provided a copy for the MoFo giveaways here! I hope I have tantalized you enough, because this should be on your shelf, and stained from use. It will still be pretty, and you (and the people who you live with/bake for!) will be really happy.

To enter the giveaway, leave a comment below. Tell me about a vegan bake sale you baked for, or a vegan baked good you bought at one, or a vegan baked good you can't live without, or anything at all. This giveaway is open to everybody everywhere, whether you are in Seoul, San Diego, or Sydney. The winner will be chosen by a random number generator and posted tomorrow below tomorrow's giveaway. If you win a giveaway on this blog at some point this month, please be kind and don't enter further giveaways--I'd love as many people to win something as possible!

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The winner of yesterday's Taza Mexicano Sampler giveaway is radioactivevegan! Congratulations! Please send your name and address to me at miso...@yahoo.com. (<---make sure to click on the . . . link for the rest of the email address. This is a spam avoidance thing.)

27 comments:

I think my favourite bake sale I've baked for was part of an event organised by my friend Dawn for the rescue dog charity she works for. It was their 10th anniversary and lots of people who'd got dogs from them came along to the event with their dogs.

Oooh this is an exciting giveaway, I'd love a copy of this to use at all our bake sales! Our bake sales are always a great way to catch up with the local vegans and to introduce new vegans to the group :)

OMG, such a great giveaway, and one of the rare worldwide ones to boot! This book has been on my wishlist for a while now, and everything from it looks absolutely delicious!Whenever we have an event at work to which people can bring homebaked goods, everyone (including omnivores) asks me to make my brownie recipe that has coffee and walnuts. I'd love to organize a vegan bake sale for an animal charity one day, and I'm sure with this book we'd be able to cater to everyone's tastes.

What a great looking book! I haven't had the opportunity to participate in a bake sale. Not even sure if they do them here in my city! I think my favourite baked good is a brownie... or maybe it's anything with coconut in it, tough decision!

I love cupcakes! And peanut butter cups...I made some yesterday for the first time to take to a farewell and they were de-freaking-licious!! I'm a sucker for sweets though, I love them all...peanut brittle, yum. And chocolate chili cookies!

I love the way you talk about the actual recipes you have tried and had success with - so many times I feel like reviews of cookbooks are just of the book itself, rather than from having actually made the recipes!

As for baked goods, I am on a perpetual quest for the perfect vegan cinnamon roll (including frosting). I have yet to find it, particularly the frosting, but I keep trying!

I made a few dozen (vegan) cupcakes for a Haiti Benefit Bake Sale for a local college to sell. I heard they were gone right away and everyone was really excited to have so many vegan options! I would love to win this book! Thanks so much!

I probably haven't bought anything at a bake sale since I became interested in vegan baking (not many options at bake sales I've seen). But, I have really enjoyed trying interesting vegan cupcake recipes and there's always room on my shelf for more vegan recipes (especially for sweets!)

Open to everyone, yay! The book sounds so so good. I haven't participated in a vegan bake sale yet but would love to hold one at my university. I'm definitely a fan of baking and getting more adventurous with trying savoury baked goods and pies too :)Emmahttp://coconutandberries.tumblr.com

In Boulder, I used to completely dig into the house-baked oatmeal currant muffin (vegan from day one) at the local wild oats, they were quite popular, without loads of sugar, good stuff to fuel the day

I love pretty much all vegan baked goods, but if I had to pick one that I couldn't live without it would probably be either cakey brownies or oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Thanks for the great giveaway!